Earthquakes in Mid-Atlantic states are not infrequent seismic occurrences

It is a reaction expressed by the stock of those who have suffered from the mere occurrence of an earthquake, and it seems that the key element in the preparation of reports of the earthquake.

"It looks like a train or a heavy truck going by the house," the explanation of witnesses, although they may live miles from the railway line or the nearest highway, and this reaction is dutifully regurgitated in the press and television accounts.

It's only when it starts ringing China, chandelier begins to influence a little, and bed and windows shaking that "survivors" really get on the nervous system and become a little more creative color for one "large" with journalists.

Marylanders, together with their brethren in neighboring Pennsylvania, Washington and Virginia, and jarred awake around 5 am Friday to shake a little rocking and rolling as a 3.6 earthquake on the Richter scale, was centered near Germantown, the little things.